…includes 9 bonus tracks of ‘Midnight Versions’ and rarities.
Marius Lauber’s debut album is in itself a feat of many surprises. The Cologne, Germany-based artist, who records and produces under the moniker Roosevelt, takes measures to make sure that this initial self-titled offering feels far from conventional, yet remains accessible to those who crave new sounds.
Upon first listen of the self-titled debut, Roosevelt’s origin should not surprise many diehards of electronic music, as the genre is very much rooted in the land of the Rhine, with forerunners of synthpop such as Kraftwerk and Neu! both hailing from the country. Roosevelt takes what made those early electro artists special and…
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This live recording captures the “Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic” concert celebrating Nils Landgren‘s 70th birthday at the Berlin Philharmonie, conceived as a tribute to his idol and later collaborator, the late Joe Sample, built around songs with a deep personal connection to Nils. Leading jazz musicians join forces with the outstanding brass players of the Berlin Philharmonic, with arrangements by Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Magnus Lindgren and a guest appearance by acclaimed vocalist China Moses.
…With more than sixty albums released under his own name, along with countless collaborations spanning a remarkable range of musical worlds, he has built a career founded not on stylistic boundaries, but on curiosity and…
Remastered 3CD boxset gathering together the three albums by Adrian Belew released by Atlantic Records between 1989 and 1992.
…The run of solo albums capped off a remarkable decade for Adrian Belew. In 1977, he was playing in a Nashville covers band called Sweetheart when Frank Zappa – acting on a tip-off from his chauffeur (naturally) – asked him to join his band. Zappa’s exacting standards and crack backing band added up to a crash course in experimental music and Belew flourished. The guitarist caught Brian Eno’s eye, who recommended him to David Bowie. When Bowie approached Belew after a gig in Berlin with an offer to join his band, Zappa was apparently furious. “Quite a guitar player you have here, Frank,” Bowie said, according…
…’Congratulations I’m Sorry (Expanded Edition)’ is the 2026 definitive reissue celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Gin Blossoms’ multi-platinum third studio album. Originally released in 1996, this expanded version features the original 14 tracks alongside 5 bonus tracks.
Co-produced by John Hampton, Congratulations I’m Sorry debuted at 10 upon its release in February 1996 partially on the strength of “Follow You Down,” which became the group’s first Top 10 hit on the Hot 100.
Most observers wondered if the Gin Blossoms would be able to deliver a consistent second album after the departure (and subsequent suicide) of Doug Hopkins, their former guitarist who wrote “Hey Jealousy” and “Found Out About You,”…
‘Normalization’ in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s was paradoxical: rather than a return to normality, it in fact meant renewed state control over society, culture, and public life. It followed the Prague Spring of 1968, which had grown out of the political and cultural relaxation of the 1960s, where under Alexander Dubček, reforms aimed to create ‘socialism with a human face’ allowed greater freedom of expression and artistic experimentation. The Soviet Union considered these reforms too radical, however, and in August 1968 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia, bringing the reform process to an end.
From 1969 onwards, the authorities restricted freedom of expression and cultural activity, and excluded politically undesirable figures…
Continuing Doctor Bird’s comprehensive anthology series of Lee “Scratch” Perry-produced singles, Jungle Lion tracks the innovator’s studio output from the beginning of 1973, just before he established his storied Black Ark Studios and created much of his most celebrated work. During this era, he was making tracks that still sometimes bore a resemblance to older rocksteady rhythms, but he was pushing reggae firmly into the future through his studio experimentation, as well as his work with deejays and toasters such as Dillinger and Charlie Ace. While there are a few more traditionally sung love songs, most of the tracks with vocals feature playful, reverb-heavy toasting and chatting. Perry growls heavily on the truly wild “Jungle Lion,” one of his…
…the deluxe edition includes two previously unreleased demos from Coe’s earliest Nashville recording sessions with Shelby Singleton.
Though Texas Moon wasn’t released until 1977 on Shelby Singleton’s Plantation label, it was actually recorded in 1973, then sold to Columbia with David Allan Coe’s contract. Needless to say, the recording and production budgets were considerably smaller than they were at the latter label. Well-known for its notorious cover photo, the set’s real merit is that it displays Coe’s ability as an interpretive singer, though on a few tracks he tries too hard. He wrote only two of the set’s ten songs — one of which, “Mary Magdeline,” (sic) is considered a classic. Texas Moon is lean, almost raw. Highlights include Coe’s readings of…
…includes the original album tracks supplemented by rare B-sides, remixes, and a pair of previously unreleased instrumental tracks.
Maps & Atlases’ second EP, You and Me and the Mountain, found the band moving in a lighter direction than the mathematical frenzy of their first EP Trees, Swallows, Houses. Their first full-length sees them fully morphed into a sophisticated indie pop group. Perch Patchwork is a bold debut, filled with bombastic arrangements, twisting modal progressions, and percussive layers. The skill set is high, but it’s far less showy. Guitarists will still be enthralled by Dave Davidson’s and Erin Elders’ fingertapping, but acoustics take precedent, and moderately slow tempos maintain the album’s balladic feel.
As impressive as blues rocking guitarist Joanna Connor’s studio albums are, it’s onstage where she burns the brightest. Perhaps that’s why she has released a handful of live recordings after 1989’s debut, the first being Living on the Road (1993). But it has been sixteen years since 2019’s Live 24, and even though Connor’s most recent releases shepherded by longtime fans Joe Bonamassa (2021’s fiery 4801 South Indiana Avenue) and Mike Zito (the terrific Best of Me from 2023 [not a greatest hits collection]) have been impressive, they only hint at the power and exuberance she delivers for a typically blazing gig in a club full of blues lovers.
That’s the setup for Live on 11/11, recorded at a single show on the titular date in 2025 at…
On August 20, 1976, KISS performed in front of over 42,000 fans at Anaheim Stadium in California. It was the then-rising band’s largest audience to date; only three years earlier, the band had been performing to audiences of ten people. The band are now commemorating the 50th anniversary of a seminal concert with a new collection titled Destroys Anaheim ’76.
Eddie Kramer, who originally recorded the concert, has newly mixed the material from the original multi-track tapes. The album features liner notes by Ken Sharp, who has authored multiple books on the hard rock group, including the New York Times bestseller Nothin’ to Lose: The Making of KISS. The special collection includes unreleased photos and memorabilia imagery.
Sounds Like Art is an exciting new concert initiative that invites musicians to perform amongst works of art in a European museum of their choice. World-renowned artist Sting performs in the beautiful surroundings of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum amongst paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Judith Leyster, and reflects on the works of the old masters.
The 17-time Grammy Award winning artist performs a unique concert amongst masterpieces in the Gallery of Honour. Playing a rare 17th century guitar, Sting, managed by Martin Kierszenbaum/Cherrytree Music Company, reveals his love for the Old Masters and revels in the power of books and reading, while performing in the museum’s spectacular library.
Taking a cue from Happy Mondays‘ smash’n’grab approach to making music, this super-deluxe reissue of the group’s totemic third album raids an array of previous Mondays releases. Alongside a new remaster of Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches is an amalgamation of the Madchester Rave On and Hallelujah EPs; Baby Big Head Bootleg Album, the “unofficial” 1991 live recording originally let loose by the band themselves; and a slew of remixes, some lifted from original singles, others from projects issued earlier this year.
It all makes for a gloriously heady package which befits the Mondays’ time-warping maximalism. With grunge, Britpop and hip hop all outlasting the Madchester scene the Mondays birthed (and transcended), it’s easy to forget that…
Visions of Sodal Ye, is eerie and disorientating – the sound of ecological dread – and named for the prophet character in Brian Aldiss’ 1962 novel Hothouse, who realises that life on a far-future Earth is doomed. The record was released by a vanity publishing label who never said ‘non’ as long as they received a fee and a tape. While this should be inconsequential it reveals much about the French counterculture at the end of the ’70s.
Claude Cuvelier and Jean Skowron, the two provincial northern French music nerds who created Mar-Vista, wanted to reach a big audience but suffered countless knockbacks from ‘real’ French labels. The pair came to the conclusion that “the recording industry in France wasn’t interested in our kind of music” and could…
Grief is a universal experience that no one can truly be prepared for, and one that each of us inhabits differently, in ways we are unable to control or predict. Written for Paula Ďurinová’s film Lapilli, Petra Hermanova‘s soundtrack follows an exploration of death through stones, caves and volcanic landscapes, asking how the physical world absorbs and preserves traces of loss. The title refers to the fragments of rock ejected during a volcanic eruption — small stones suspended between destruction and renewal — and Hermanová’s music inhabits that same uncertain territory, poised between fragility and endurance.
The opening suite, “Five Stages”, moves at a measured pace, every gesture carrying its full weight without ever tipping into emotional…
…expanded version features the original 13 tracks alongside live bonus recordings from 1998.
Grunge, however you define it, still dominated the perception of the Seattle music scene following the death of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain in April 1994. The disparate bands marketed under that reductive banner — most notably Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden — continued to shift millions of records, and you couldn’t toss a Doc Marten into the air without smacking an Eddie Vedder soundalike in the face as dozens of outsiders rode the flannel shirt-tails of those tentpole bands to varying levels of success. Still, more and more cracks began to surface in Seattle’s seemingly monolithic stranglehold on alternative rock. In the same calendar year as Cobain’s…
…Arriving 26 years on from its original 2000 release by the Fuzzbox label, and after a 2003 reissue via Beggars imprint too pure, the album has been newly remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios.
Sure, the title is ironic. But its aim is good. ‘My Pain And Sadness…’ wields irony as a savage weapon rather than a smug, self-serving joke; this is the sound of McLusky’s kangaroo court convened – a self-appointed culling force, dead set on weeding out cynical three-chord punk fakers by sounding a lot like Sonic Youth re-recording ‘Daydream Nation’ at double speed. In an abbatoir.
Blood, guts, righteous fury – they’re all things the Yanks are currently churning out in factory-line proportions, and at first, it seems…
